Reduced gamma frequency in the medial frontal cortex of aged rats during behavior and rest: Implications for age-related behavioral slowing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 16331-16344

  Insel, Nathan ^a   Patron, Lilian A ^a   Hoang, Lan T ^a   Nematollahi, Saman ^a   Schimanski, Lesley A ^a   Lipa, Peter ^a   Barnes, Carol A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; PENTOBARBITAL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REST; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; REST; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84869026998     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1577-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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